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credulitiveness

credulitiveness noun: credulity.

Noun

credulitiveness (uncountable)

  1. Credulity.
    • A certain quantity of belief is a want of the human mind. Perhaps there is an Organ of Credulity, or Credulitivenes , which requires food.1824, John Macculloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, page 64
    • In the popular discussion of it, there is something highly amusing, and it often applies to the character of individuals with peculiar fitness: but then it is sneered at by the witty, and confuted by the wise; and seriously to declare in its favor, is equivalent to a display of the full development...1826, J.C. Tomlinson, “Phrenology”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 26, number 52

Origin of credulitiveness

From credulitive, (a nonce for credulous that satirizes the naming conventions of phrenology), + -ness.

Questions about credulitiveness

What does credulitiveness mean?
Credulitiveness means credulity.
What part of speech is credulitiveness?
Credulitiveness is a noun.

Words near credulitiveness in the dictionary

  1. credophiles
  2. credos
  3. creds
  4. credulist
  5. credulities
  6. credulitiveness
  7. credulity
  8. credulosity
  9. credulous
  10. credulously
  11. credulousness

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